-President Barry opened the meeting with a toast to the Queen 
Attendees:16 including guests
- Guests
Ralph Jones past member of the Club a past DG
Dorthy Evans Markham Sunrise Rotary Club
Anna Maria , past Club president, currently Calgary East Rotary
Dhanni introduced our speaker.Steve Rutledge
Steve gave a presentation on his Rotary work in Laos in updating and improving a local village fresh water supply system and extensive renovations to a rural health centre . This is a project that our club has supported for many years.
Steve described a very challenging year. The initial budgets were found to be too small, They arrived after a 3 month drought, river levels were at a record low which caused changes to be made to the projects. the river that they had planned on damming didn't have enough water to supply the village plus two more villages down stream. a new river was located which necessitated a further 3.6 km of piping. costing a further $20,000.00.
There were many issues not the least being COVID-19. Steve said that Laos acted very quickly on this and shut down the country basically, so students were stranded and all restaurants and hotels were closed. Despite this we were told that the water project for this particular village should be completed in 3 weeks. The rainy season came early this year so there will be plenty of water.
Steve described with pictures what the work results look like. I strongly advise you to take a look at the whole presentation by following this link.
David Seemungal thanked Steve for a very informative presentation.
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Announcements
Announcements
Gerd Wengler/ Park Property stated that $100K will be made available to the Club to be allocated to benefit our community services located in Scarborough , for prompt use ,for COVID19 relief measures.Arthur and his Community Service group will be the lead on distribution of funds If you have ideas for its use , contact Arthur. Discussion followed on how Park Property and the Club could get media recognition.
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Arthur shared the suggestion he had received so far.
Sergeant at Arms Gerd requested happy thoughts and jokes from the attendees .Peter was happy that the weather was cooling off while Barry was happy that it had warmed up.
Arthur was happy that he heard new cases of COVID had slowed down drastically downtown. Tony also said that his apartment complex had no cases.
Various members were really happy with Steve's presentation. Alan suggested that he would like to donate. Donations ear marked for Steve can be sent to Dhanni.
Gordon said that the home Sue's mum lives in has been cleared of COVID and Sue can now visit.
Barry closed the meeting.
All 16 enjoyed another great Zoom meeting.
Editors note:
I was asked by SHN to send this notice out.
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